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China Completes Its First Manned Space Docking
This AP story, as carried by the Houston Chronicle, says that the Chinese Shenzhou 9 spacecraft (carrying a crew that includes the country's first female astronaut) has successfully docked with an orbiting module, a first for China's manned space program. However, manned mission or not, the actual docking was actually executed from below: as with previous docking maneuvers, "Monday's docking also was completed by remote control from a ground base in China. A manual docking, to carried out by one of the crew members, is scheduled for later in the mission. Two crew members plan to conduct medical tests and experiments inside the module, while the third will remain in the spacecraft."
Now everyone will want to do it
Slow but steady progress since initiating this program in 1992.
With a first Chinese moonwalk estimated for 2024 that is 32 years total (with already 50 years of rocket research in the world to leverage off) ... makes you understand just much the US threw at its lunar programme to manage going from the start of the Mercury program to moonwalk in less than 11 years
I wonder what kind of "medical tests and experiments" a mixed-gender crew might undergo in microgravity.
There, I fixed that for /.
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"[...] the country's first female astronaut) has successfully docked [...]"
...carrying a crew that includes the country's first female astronaut... A manual docking, to carried out by one of the crew members, is scheduled... Two crew members plan to conduct medical tests and experiments...
...giggity.
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Automatic orbital rendezvous and docking is no mean feat. Respect to the engineers involved.
What cracks me up, is how silly and inmature the mainland Chinese are as a nation though. They are so insecure, that they have to send the hottest female fighter pilot they could find into space, and then Photoshopped all the pictures. There's obviously no word for "tokenism" in the Chinese language.
The Chinese Communist Party is sooooo insecure. Everything they do is about making or preserving face, rather than merely trying to generally do the right thing, as in the West. It's hilarious, sad and piss weak.
There were men, too. I would call it "humanned space docking", so that nobody can complain.
"They're starving back in China, so finish what you got." is a line from a John Lennon song, when I was a kid that's what mother's told their children when trying to persuade them to eat thier veggies. There were several famines due to Mao's "great leap" the worst of which was without doubt the worst in the 20th century (and perhaps of all time). I was too young to recall that one but I do recall the one in 1969 (the same year Armstrong set foot on the moon).
It's said (by who I don't recall) that China has dragged more people out of poverty in the last 4 decades than the rest of the world combined by simply raising the standard of living for their own people. Having wittnessed (from afar) the scale of the change since the gang of four were booted out in the 70's, I'm inclined to believe that claim.
Que paranoid rants about governments from 20-somethings with cheeto filled stomachs, in...3...2....1
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
us europeans are impressed by how effective the chinese have become. very unlike the US&A and their most recent mishap: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7jENWKgMPY
The more people working on manned space flight, the more likely we'll solve the problems and make interplanetary and even interstellar travel a realistic possibility. I'm all for this. Having more groups with space capacity also means more chances of helping each other in case of emergencies. Plus to be selfish it's more likely I might get to have a go sometime in the next few decades :-)
Perhaps there's a split between engineering fields and pure science fields? In pure science, everybody seems really happy when international collaborations happen and results are shared, and junior scientists are supported by more senior ones from other places. But with (space) engineering, there seems to be more of a nationalist / us vs. them attitude? Any thoughts on why? Perhaps it is more to do with applied vs. theoretic progress in a field? nobody wants the other guys to make money/ get military advantage?
No need for inventing new words: crewed.
Because science is often done and shared among scientists, often relatively small scale, often inconsequential to international power hierarchies.
Space is nationalist because of the status implied, the technology implied which has direct military corollaries and extensions. People doing materials research for anti-radar and other stealth technologies don't tell the world either, are you as surprised by that?
It is interesting the Chinese have managed this, though I am not sure how useful this will be. It might have been better to work together with the other parties on the international space station. I was actually suprised that it has taken so long to get the first female into space as China has a rather 50/50 division of the sexes in the engineering field. As a matter of fact, I work in a institute that is part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and I think that in my office there are more women than men as far as engineers are concerned.
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This just in: It would appear that NASA has been infested with crickets. When reporters called the NASA switchboard seeking comment on China's latest achievement, this is all that could be heard.
Actually with all the science, open and public information available, drawings of space vehicles and the the how to do's that are open to our allies, all they needed was the willful cooperation of one of our companies, to put a man in space. To create the next space race, to militarize space. You know the old saw about being at the top of the hill. Easier to shoot down.But still have not seen anything on the midwestern news about their joy, or their accomplishments.
China Completes Its First woManned Space Docking
You both fail. These would work, yes, as alternative titles to the article, but they have no trolling value so they're useless for the purpose of the OP AC's suggestion. OK the GP's version would admittedly still troll the more sensitive to linguistics people, but that'd be a comparatively incomplete subset.
Here's a link to a news article showing them three waving from the Tiangong-1 spacelab:
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/special/shenzhou9/index.htm
(a bit surprised the Slashdot article was refering to a Houston newspaper not Xinhua net).
I always though Space Docking involved a man and a woman.
We should compliment them and applaud their achievement, I'm guessing...the blurb is light on factual details. Look, we're all nation states now, but it's likely your antecedents and theirs will intermingle at some point (if it hasn't happened already.)
Mandarin is a fine ad hoc, potentially de facto language.
So either we'll look back on this as an achievement of humanity, or possibly look back on it as a bag of soylent green.
Do corporations really merit personhood? I mean, most of our robots are way closer.
Bender, for instance.
We should compliment them and applaud their achievement, I'm guessing...the blurb is light on factual details. Look, we're all nation states now, but it's likely your antecedents and theirs will intermingle at some point (if it hasn't happened already.) Mandarin is a fine ad hoc, potentially de facto language. So either we'll look back on this as an achievement of humanity, or possibly look back on it as a bag of soylent green. Do corporations really merit person-hood? I mean, most of our robots are way closer. Bender, for instance. *sorry for re post...I just like to keep track of my own opinions for when I choose to question them...and I am not an anonymous coward 40-60% of the time.
American astronauts wouldn't put up with being spam in a can while everything was controlled from the ground.
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Was it man-on-man docking, or something more in line with our interests?
Or was it symmetrical docking? I'd skip the manned docking, but symmetrical docking with nice breasts is something I'd stick around for.
> And they stole all our rocket secrets in the 90's.
Says an American - from a country whose most used rocket is running on a Russian RD-180 engine.
Ho Lee Crap, how off Earth did you miss the nearly automatic Goodwin play on that hand?!!!!
Here, it's not hard :
Says an American - from a country whose moon program was built by all the best repatriated NAZI rocket scientists.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Iran is going to go up there and knock over the American flag.
Heck, that could be done by a robotic mission. It wouldn't even be that hard (relatively speaking) to burn a American flag on the moon.
What are you going to do about that , mr toughguy Great Satan ? !
Obviously we need a crash moonbase program to base space rangers on the moon to oversee and preserve such great Human historical sites.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
So we're arbitrarily drawing the line at liquid rockets?!
I presume the STS only partially existed in your universe?
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Well, she's no Lisa Nowak...
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
I'm glad they had a woman on the crew. That type of Space Docking: shitting in her vagina is a bit more acceptable than the other kind where two guys pull their foreskins over the heads of each others penises and rub them around!
I don't understand why no one mentioned this here. The Chinese rockets are based on the Russian Soyuz. The spacesuits look similar to Russian, because they are Russian.
"In 1994, Russia sold some of its advanced aviation and space technology to the Chinese. In 1995 a deal was signed between the two countries for the transfer of Russian Soyuz spacecraft technology to China. Included in the agreement was training, provision of Soyuz capsules, life support systems, docking systems, and space suits."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhou_spacecraft
Everyone wants to have billions and trillions that they can spend spend spend, without having to work for it
Every geek wants to have sexy gf with big boobs
Every nation wants to be the King of the World
But can anyone afford to do anything anytime anywhere?
Of course, China wants to be many things
It may even wants to be the first nation establishing a base on the moon
But it doesn't mean China will do it the way other countries (USA and former USSR) had done - China may opt to do it a firm and careful step at a time
Their "TianGong" space module experiment become a reality thanks to USA, Europe, Russia and Japan.
It's because the above-mentioned had blocked China's joining the ISS, that China had no choice but to build their own space station
China's next move, according to my own observation, is to build a space-station that can double as half-way-station between planet Earth and Moon (and maybe beyond)
They may want to build a space-station that not only be used to carry out zero-gravity experiments, but also, doubles as a warehouse, a parking lot, a fuel depot, and a R & R spot for their space crews
And they may even want to build another space station orbiting the Moon, to enable them to go even further, like Mars
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
Good job Lockheed Martin! Good job!!! Clinton approved LM going to China to help them with rockets.